European Commission urges heavy industry to back ‘Made in Europe’ manufacturing
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/01/16/european-commission-urges-heavy-industry-to-back-made-in-europe-manufacturing-leak
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European Commission urges heavy industry to back ‘Made in Europe’ manufacturing
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/01/16/european-commission-urges-heavy-industry-to-back-made-in-europe-manufacturing-leak
Posted by Evermoving-
33 Comments
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Making a speech won’t cut it. You need to implement policies to make sure it happens. Do you guys remember the time when politicians actually decided the fate of a country? Hopes and prayers is all we have left.
Maybe if EU management keep the tariffs on Chinese car imports, instead of self sabotaging us, by removing them, it would be a good first step.
LOL
After decades of regulations, restrictions, bureaucracy, environmental taxes, CO2 pricing and so on… Now they come with this pathetic attempt.
If you want heavy industry to remain maybe work on creating favorable conditions for it.
You can only make this possible with subsidies because we cant compete with the cheap energy from the US and China.
Finally focus on green Steel and high quality engineering that the way to bet China.
Also enforce long warranties and demand that it should be able to service and fix. So we kill the buy and throw mentality. Our garbage dumps grow with allnthis Chinese shit
With words again? Where is the action? You need to invest. Help companies automate, force Chinese companies to subcontract EU-based companies to make their cars and batteries.
Invest a shit ton in renewables and batteries because we don’t have oil and it will help with pricing, as well as technology innovation and manufacturing.
Semi-force use of EU based cloud infrastructure by heavily subsidizing it.
Connect everything with trains because that and shipping is the cheapest option there is, and people need it.
Invest in pharma and keep the patents for cheap drugs for Europeans that paid a ton for the development of said pharma R&D.
Bases for heavy industry is cheap energy.
How about we start with basic like supply of energy then we can talk about heavy industry
Also green regulation been devastating for heavy industry
So if EU really meens this thay need to forget about
Green targets BC china/India main competitors for heavy industry give 0 fucks about being green.
Hopefully this isn’t just words but there is meaningful work in the background to have Made in Europe manufacturing
Some signs of common sense but still plenty of European stupidity to fight. Obviously production should be here and European decision makers have to create conditions for it. Put the countries’ interest as top priority instead of wasting time arguing about non-issues that got attention on social media…
I agree!
Unfortunately the downside is production costs are higher here than elsewhere. Higher salary, often higher safety standard, high energy costs and higher costs of resources.
EU need to subsidize that or find another way to reduce that. Otherwise it’s difficult to compete with countries that has cheaper production costs.
Ok. This goes polar opposite to the green political movement across Europe. You’re going to have to choose between industrial manufacturing independence in Europe or the ongoing decades long crusade of green utopian pipe dreams.
Carbon emissions go ^^^^
I promise you, none of this will help with starting new companies or bringing new players into the market.
“Business leaders” are going to take any subsidies or benefits provided, outsource it all anyway, then lobby for lower trade barriers to “protect our industrial access”.
Urging wont help. We need less bureaucracy, lower energy costs and a more efficient single market with more harmonized rules
Heavy industry doesn’t know allegiances or values, only interests. If the made in Europe is more convenient than outsourcing, then they will do it. Otherwise they won’t.
Meaning either we subsidise heavy industry here or we make it burdensome to outsource outside of the EU from a financial and legal viewpoint.
Agreed. Europe or EU. Im hopping Europe. I’m looking at you UK Switzerland Israel etc.
Oh no! Quality European engineering! Whatever will we do?
Ok but how? Just saying it won’t change a thing.
It could work if you subsidize it
And build them in the lower income eu countries
Well that’s the downside with globalization and those free trade agreements, companies move abroad to cheaper countries with lower taxes and without union benefits for the workers. So we get made in China instead of made in Europe.
I love the idea, started using European programs, etc. But as long as there is no proper intend to provide comparable offers in terms of price, this is just cheating the population using europeanism, and as good as MAGA….
Very good point. We have to accept that the industry is polluting and remove rules that make this industry move to China or elsewhere. If we want steel, there is no other way than building heavy industry. We can however minimize the impact on environment as we should do. But we really need this industry here for strategic reasons.
Good idea
How about making electricity cheaper, reduce taxation, and prevent local houseowners protesting every single attempt at constructing production industry?
That’s what holds Germany back, at least.
We somehow thought deindustrializing ourselves will somehow make the world greener, rather production moved to countries that are cheaper and dirtier (or, in case of China, go green, but never to such extent that it risks industrialization). To the surprise of noone people still need metals and plastics to build stuff.
Hopefully in a way that makes more sense than what the US is ‘doing’.
Hopefully something is done and not just “announced” – works as well as thoughts and prayers
And pay 10 times more?
Good idea but the same must be done regarding services. The Commission should stop using Azure. In fact US clouds must be banned from all European institutions and public services. They are a huge risk.
Made in Spain, Germany, France, Italy and sometimes Sweden or Poland, rest of EU countries Made in EU.
/s
90 EUR/tCO2 is not enough
We should but only manufacture what makes sense. Please don’t be like the orange idiot, I don’t want to hear about growing bananas in France.
And what steps are they going to take to make Europe a more attractive place to do business than elsewhere?
Just saying it won’t do anything, you have to implement pro-business policies.